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...told the CIA has a hit list of terrorist leaders whom the agency is authorized to kill. It's a strategy that even Jeffrey Smith, the former general counsel of the CIA, has frowned upon. "This ought to be a last resort for the United States," he said after the Predator attack in Yemen. And, Smith noted, "sometimes you get the wrong man. It also seems to legitimize assassination...putting at risk our own leaders and to some extent our own citizens...
Broadbent, who has been trying to play more consistently over the course of a match, was unable to dictate play against Ferreira, the highest-ranked opponent he has encountered this year. Instead, Ferreira ran Broadbent all over the court, forcing the rookie to resort to diving, off-balance shots...
...installment of Stephane Huete's Proust project - which will likely last until 2020 - has just been released in English. With the intention of adapting all seven volumes of the French masterpiece, Huete's latest continues the story of volume two: "Within a Budding Grove." Set at a French seaside resort at the turn of century, the narrator is a young man of delicate temperament. Vacationing among the idle rich, our hero spies a group of young women around the resort and has his fancy drift from one to the other. Who will the young man choose and will she reciprocate...
...Borobudur has powerful allies. In 1991, UNESCO listed the monument as a World Heritage site, in exchange for official undertakings to maintain international standards of conservation. A zoning plan was drawn up, but it has already been flouted: the site of a projected conference center is now a resort. Particularly obnoxious is an absurd choo-choo, drawn by a truck in steam-locomotive drag, which tootles around the stupa. One Java World opponent says when the "conductor" was asked what they did with the train when UNESCO people visited, he replied that they...
...even if you're not in the film biz or a friend of Gwyneth Paltrow's, it's not too late to be part of the glitzy fun. Instead of trying to cram into overbooked Park City, stay 40 minutes away at Robert Redford's 6,000-acre resort in Sundance Village. Packages are still available, starting at $295 a night, and include screenings of some of the films being shown at the festival and skiing on a surprisingly uncrowded mountain. Celeb spotting is free. --By Lisa McLaughlin